--- title: She told him she had, unseen, perceived what troubled him, and it af… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics description: She told him she had, unseen, perceived what troubled him, and it afforded her soul sweet comfort to know that she could help him. Who acts: maiden, sorrow. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, sorrow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74323:21:88 # text = She told him she had, unseen, perceived what troubled him, and it afforded her soul sweet comfort to know that she could help him. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 unseen unseen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 perceived perceive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 11 nsubj _ _ 11 troubled trouble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 afforded afford VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 comfort comfort NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | maiden | | sympathy | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | past | maiden | | | | | unseen *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **perceive** | past | maiden *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **trouble** | past | | sympathy | | | | what *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 5 | **afford** | past | sorrow | maiden | | | | sweet comfort *obj* | tree rules | | 6 | **know** | to-infinitive | sorrow *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **help** | could | maiden | | sympathy | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/21/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/21/89/) - ↑ back to [A Historical Tale., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/21/)